Dennis J. Kucinich

Americans need to think about all the things their government needs to do — from defending the nation to teaching its children to fixing its roads — and then ask if there's a way to end the pressure of mandatory spending programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Rep. Scott Rigell says.

In a free-wheeling hour-and-half-long chat with several dozen Peninsula residents, Rigell flouted a wide range of political conventions, all to push his basic message — that what's wrong in Washington can be fixed.

The problem, he said, is simple: "Apathy — that little voice that says this problem is too big ... this gridlock is too...

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